Research Experience
Senior Research Engineer II, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 2024 – Present
Senior Research Engineer I, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 2022 – July 2024
Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 2021 – June 2022
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2016 – August 2021
Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 2015 – May 2016
Research Areas
• Active topics: Electric Power Systems Modeling, Planning, and Optimization, Transmission and distribution system co-simulation, Electric vehicle integration, Grid Resilience, GMD and EMP analysis and mitigation, Electric transmission network planning, Optimal power flow, Integration of renewable energy resources, Smart Grids
• Research Interests: Protective Relaying, Energy Markets, Microgrids
Research Projects (PI)
Total Research Funding: $1,889,200
• Creating Large-Scale Realistic Synthetic Grid Models, ERCOT, $125,000, 02/2026 – 12/2026
• Proposal Lead and PM for Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling Project, DOE CESER, $380,000, 10/2025 – 09/2026
• GMD Transformer Modeling Plan, DOE Office of Electricity (OE), $100,000, 06/2025 – 10/2026
• Geomagnetic Disturbance Analysis, ERCOT, $50,000, 02/2025 – 02/2026
• Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium, DOE Grid Deployment Office (GDO), $600,000, 09/2024 – 11/2025
• Transmission Study on Heavy Duty Truck Electrification for Northern California, ElectroTempo, $50,000, 06/2024 – 06/2025
• A Utility-Scale Plan for Accelerating the Deployment of Multi-Family EV Charging Infrastructure, TAMU portion $150,000, project total $2,000,000 project total, DOE VTO, 10/2023 – 09/2025
• Scalable Truck Charging Demand Simulation for Cost-Optimized Infrastructure Planning, TAMU portion $97,200, project total $320,000 project total, DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), 10/2021 – 12/2024
• Study of the Impact of Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Events on the Entergy System Associated with NERC TPL-007.1, Entergy, $37,000, 01/2023 – 12/2023
Research Projects (co-PI)
• Research, Development, and Demonstration of a Natural Hazard and Large Language Model Enhanced Electric Grid Planning Tool, DOE CESER, $2,500,000, Project Dates: 06/2025 – 06/2029
• Electric Grid Resilience, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), TAMU portion $1,500,000, 07/2024 – 09/2026
• Enhanced Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling, DOE CESER, TAMU portion $750,000, 2/2022 – 09/2025
• HEMP (High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) Transmission Consequence Model, DOE Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), TAMU Portion $650,000, 10/2021 – 09/2026
Research Projects (researcher)
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 3, $550,000, 01/2022 – 10/2024
• PSERC S-102G: Second Stage in the Feasibility Assessment of the Synchronous Operations of the North American Eastern and Western Interconnections, $100,000, 12/2022 – 05/2024
• PSERC S-99: Incorporating Climate Impacts into Electricity System Planning Models, $64,000, 08/2022 – 0/2023
• PSERC S-91: Generating Value from Detailed, Realistic Synthetic Electric Grids, $32,000, 9/2021 – 08/2022
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 2, 08/2020 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E PERFORM (Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management), $200,000, 09/2019 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 1, $165,000.00, 11/2018 – 12/2019
• Lead PhD student for EPIGRIDS (Electric Power Infrastructure and Grid Representations in Interoperable Data Sets), ARPA-E GRID DATA (Generating Realistic Information for the Development of Distribution and Transmission Algorithms), $1,801,587, 09/2016 – 02/2020